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This photo came to the Time Machine from Ken Mc Ardle, Asst. Chief (ret.) of the Jim Thorpe Fire Department, Diligent Fire Company 3. According to Jeff Welz (of North Hudson Fire and Rescue fame), this truck dates from 1974 and was stationed at the…

Black and white photograph, circa 1927 of an early pumper from the Baldwin Hose Co., parked in from of St. Lawrence Church (at left). In 1912, the first modern motor-driven engine was purchased for the Clifton Hose Company firehouse on Park Avenue.…

Black and white photograph from 1912. This engine was given to Clifton Hose Company 3 with this rig when they moved from the edge of the Palisades at Boulevard East and 48th Street to the 4610 Park Ave Firehouse, where she still stands (104 years…

Badge number 49 from the Weehawken Fire Department (now part of the North Hudson Fire and Rescue). This badge belongs to Dennis Cosgrove (WFD, ret.) who sent this image in to the Time Machine.

The Weehawken Fire Department's Ladder 1, a 1949 American La France 100 foot aerial ladder outside of the Clifton Hose Company's firehouse on Park Avenue. This image was sent in by Tom Heck. Location information for this item: 4611 Park Avenue

The Weehawken Fire Department's Engine 3, a 1924 American La France engine outside of the Clifton Hose Company's firehouse on Park Avenue. This image was sent in by Tom Heck.

Section of a Universal Newsreel detailing a major pier fire at Weehawken in 1947.

List of Weehawken Fire Alarm boxes from The Red Book Information Guide, published in 1926 by The Interstate Map Company of Newark. From the collection of Willie Demontreux.

Back and white photo, dated 1912, shows the crowd along Boulevard East near Van Clief's Hotel, who turned out to see the new Knox Motorized Fire Engine. The Pier 7 grain elevator looms large behind the engine. This photo from the collection of the…

Black and white photos of firefighters battling the fire which occurred on September 15, 1937, at the site of the S. P. Penick Drug Co., 1819 Willow Avenue. It has been recorded that it was the worst fire in Weehawken history. It even was noted…